The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was
not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the
Board.
Paper No. 24
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte KARL-HEINZ EBELING
and GERD KRAEMER
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Appeal No. 2003-1869
Application 09/622,092
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HEARD: December 9, 2003
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Before COHEN, STAAB, and MCQUADE, Administrative Patent Judges.
MCQUADE, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
Karl-Heinz Ebeling et al. appeal from the final rejection of
claims 3 through 5, all of the claims pending in the application.
THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a method for determining a motor
vehicle operating variable using a mathematically invertible
characteristic diagram stored in an X,Y,Z cartesian coordinate
system in an electronic control unit. Representative claim 3
reads as follows:
3. A method for determining a motor vehicle operating
variable to be determined as a function of a first known
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